Old 03-24-2011, 04:28 AM   #1
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Help !

I just reghosted my pc being carefull to keep what i thought was my project directory and I find that my saved projects are looking for some files in my document admin etc etc Arghhh ! they are gone forever .

How can I ensure that absolutely everything is in my reaper projects folder ?
Any why oh why did something change because earlier versions surely did not do this horrible thing..

Can somebody please tell me how to avoid this in this, and all future versions ?

Thanks in advance .. I will cool down eventually!
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Old 03-24-2011, 05:27 AM   #2
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Sounds like you worked on a project and recorded without having saved it first or properly set up directories. If your default project settings are not setup REAPER will save stuff in your Windows user folders. IIRC. Make sure you set up project folders properly then use the "Save as default project settings"-button.
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Old 03-24-2011, 06:50 AM   #3
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I do this often, I start reaper, record some stuff, then think: "i'm gonna save this in a directory".

I then go and make the directory, say: s:\music stuff\project123

Then, when I save the project in the dialog box, I tell reaper to 'Move all associated files to project directory" (there's a checkbox at the bottom of the dialog box). This puts everything in my newly created project123 directory.

Sorry for the loss, I've gotten some projects all over like this as well. After a few years, I've gotten in this habit above, and it's worked well.
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Old 03-24-2011, 07:07 AM   #4
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I do this often, I start reaper, record some stuff, then think: "i'm gonna save this in a directory".

I then go and make the directory, say: s:\music stuff\project123

Then, when I save the project in the dialog box, I tell reaper to 'Move all associated files to project directory" (there's a checkbox at the bottom of the dialog box). This puts everything in my newly created project123 directory.

Sorry for the loss, I've gotten some projects all over like this as well. After a few years, I've gotten in this habit above, and it's worked well.
maybe a better way it to tell it to copy to that directory...

in case you are using loops from your loop library, ...you don't want them moved ...see?
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Old 03-24-2011, 03:22 PM   #5
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Thanks Guys,

But it is not all the files, just some and it seems that it may be those loops that I used Glue on.

I assumed that glue saved the files in the current directory perhaps there is a seperate setting for glue... first time this ever felt like sonar...hiss!

Does glue send the files somewhere else and leave them buried there?

How can I be sure that it never happens again?

I cant do another note until I reslove what happened here

Surely i can somehow tell reaper to keep ALL my files somehere specific
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